The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.
I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn't necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts.
Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love is stripped away, we see the real person clearly. There revealed to us, with all their flaws, their foibles, and their secrets.
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
I make no secret of the fact that I was not a big Hillary Clinton supporter, but I thought in the two-way race between her and Donald Trump, that she should have been the president. But Trump promised a lot of things. And now he's six months in and hasn't passed a piece of legislation yet. Now, I personally have said we should help him. I didn't vote for him. I didn't think he was the right person. But once we have an election and he gets elected, then we have a responsibility as citizens to help him.
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.
The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.
A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.